Timothy C. Evans is the Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court

Illinois Circuit Court of Cook County

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. He is the first black Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court and a graduate of the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He was first elected to the bench in 1992.

Evans was elected alderman of Chicago's South Side 4th Ward (by a vote of 6,784 to 3,136 over Hattie B. Kay Williams, a 50-year-old Girl Scouts

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 executive) in a November 27, 1973 special election to fill the vacancy created six month earlier by the death of Ald. Claude Holman on June 1, 1973. An ally of Mayors Daley, Bilandic, Byrne and Washington, he served as floor leader and Chicago City Council Finance Chair during Harold Washington

Harold Washington

Harold Lee Washington was an American lawyer and politician who became the first African-American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.- Early years and military service :...

's mayoral administration.

Following Washington's death Evans sought to fill Washington's unexpired term but was defeated in the Chicago City Council by Eugene Sawyer

Eugene Sawyer

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Evans ran in the 1989 special election for Mayor of Chicago

Mayor of Chicago

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 to fill Washington's term as independent candidate and lost the 1989 election to Richard M. Daley

Richard M. Daley

Richard Michael Daley is a United States politician, member of the national and local Democratic Party, and former Mayor of Chicago, Illinois. He was elected mayor in 1989 and reelected in 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007. He was the longest serving Chicago mayor, surpassing the tenure of his...

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Evans was later defeated for re-election in the 4th Ward by Toni Preckwinkle

Toni Preckwinkle

Toni Reed Preckwinkle is the current Cook County Board President and a former alderman in the Chicago City Council representing Chicago's 4th ward in Cook County, Illinois, United States. She was elected on November 2, 2010, as president of the Cook County Board...

in 1991.